Throne and Liberty update 3.28.0 downtime will begin at 10:30 p.m. PT (5:30 a.m. UTC) on April 8 and last approximately 4 hours. It includes a new Battlegrounds map, the Brooch equipment slot, new Co-Op Dungeons, and balance changes. Check out the full list of changes below.
Double Archboss Spawns
Magical energy is surging across Solisium. As a result, Archbosses are becoming more active than ever. Until the start of maintenance on April 23, in accordance with the spawn schedule, 4 types of Archbosses and Ascended Archbosses will spawn simultaneously. Jump in now and take on the challenge against these even more formidable Archbosses.
During each Archboss event, 4x Archbosses will spawn instead of 2x.
1x Archboss will be a Guild event and the other 3 will be Portal events.
Battlegrounds
A new map is now available for Battlegrounds: Floating Elf Garden.
The Battlegrounds map is set to Floating Elf Garden for the remainder of the season.
Matchmaking is now restricted to parties of up to 3 players.
Loosened matchmaking requirements to improve queue times.
Debuffs are now applied limiting healing and shield health depending on role type:
Tank: -95% healing, -95% healing over time
DPS: -95% healing, -95% healing over time, -95% shield health
Added more Achievement missions for Battlegrounds.
Co-Op Dungeons
Dimensional Circle
Two new Co-Op Dungeons have been added to the Epic tier: Hellfire Crucible and Deathless Queen's Lair. These dungeons require a minimum of 5500 Combat Power to enter.
Co-Op Dungeon difficulty has been reclassified into 3 tiers: Epic, Elite, and Normal.
As a result, Fighting Spirit and Loyalty Adventure Coins can no longer be obtained from lower-tiered dungeons and will be replaced with Fortitude Coins.
All content previously granting Fighting Spirit or Loyalty Coins will now grant Fortitude instead.
Dimensional Trials
Doomrot Grove and Chapel of Madness have been added to Dimensional Trials.
New affixes added to customize challenge levels.
All tiers now grant 3000 points upon completion.
Reward chests will no longer spawn in Dimensional Trials.
Increased the Golden Chest spawn rate in tiers 9 and 10.
Brooch – New Equipment Slot
A new accessory equipment slot has been added: Brooch!
The Brooch slot is available automatically to all characters after the 3.28.0 update.
Brooches can be acquired through various content such as Nebula Island, Co-Op and Solo Dungeons, and Archbosses.
Brooches support Gear Sync but cannot have runes attached.
New Achievement missions added related to Brooches.
Balance Changes
The maximum effective range of certain stats has been capped in PvP to reduce stat disparity between players. The caps vary by content type to account for the different scales of each mode.
General PvP
Hit Chance / Evasion: 4500 ~ -3000
Critical Hit Chance / Endurance: 4500 ~ -3000
Heavy Attack Chance / Heavy Attack Evasion: 4500 ~ -3000
CC Chance / CC Resistance: 1800 ~ -1200
Battlegrounds
Hit Chance / Evasion: 3000 ~ -2000
Critical Hit Chance / Endurance: 3000 ~ -2000
Heavy Attack Chance / Heavy Attack Evasion: 3000 ~ -2000
CC Chance / CC Resistance: 1200 ~ -800
Arena
Hit Chance / Evasion: 2250 ~ -1500
Critical Hit Chance / Endurance: 2250 ~ -1500
Heavy Attack Chance / Heavy Attack Evasion: 2250 ~ -1500
CC Chance / CC Resistance: 900 ~ -600
Greatsword
Duke Magna's Provoking Warblade: Fixed an issue where Valiant Brawl's Shield Weakening Specialization was not applied.
Daggers
Phantom Smokescreen: Duration is no longer affected by Buff Duration bonuses.
Deluzhnoa's Barrier: Fixed an issue where Freeze was applied while Fonsine's Blessing was active.
Crossbows
Multi-Shot: Adjusted the chance percentage of the Shield Removal Specialization.
Longbow
Ensnaring Arrow: Fixed an issue where the Shield Removal effect occasionally did not work.
Staff
Icebound Tomb: Targets in Icebound Armor can no longer be selected as Friendly Targets and cannot be healed.
Spear
Bloodleech Aura: Purifying Touch's Vitality Specialization buff is no longer removed.
Wand
Tevent's Grasp of Withering / Tevent's Grasp of Cremation: Modified so that Tevent's Hunger effect activates when Weaken: Apostle's Curse and Weaken: Apostle's Grudge Curse are applied.
Orb
Summon Satellite: Fixed an issue where, in certain situations, being affected by another caster's Distortion Veil effect while under the cooldown debuff from Protective Satellite's Distortion Veil effect would cause the cooldown debuff to refresh.
General
Added a new Battle Pass: Cinder Crafted.
Added a new Artisan Pass: Aureate Solarium.
Abyssal Stone: Fixed an issue where the Abyssal Stone capture area located on the 1st and 2nd floor of Syleus's Abyss did not include the ceiling portion.
Reduced the cooldown for Fonsine's Blessing.
Housing
New Archboss Furniture: Queen Bellandir and Tevent cabinets, mirrors, and frames are now available to craft.
Guestbooks can be purchased from Workshop Merchants and placed in your house for visitors to leave messages.
Furniture Paint Diluents are now available for additional customization of color intensity on furniture pieces.
Mirror Boutique
Added an option to favorite colors when dyeing equipment.
Improved hair rendering quality. The Hair Strands setting has been removed.
Added more colors that can be applied to hair and skin.
Added 4 new patterns for outfits.
Guild
Guild rejoin timer is now shown at the bottom of the guild list.
Posting an item for sale will now retain the last settings used.
Added a sum of pending currency to be distributed at the bottom of the Profit Distribution window.
Ranking Menu: Improved the layout of the Ranking Menu.
Shop: Added a preview option for emotes, Amitoi, outfits, and morphs at NPC merchants.
Raids: Players can no longer be kicked after defeating a boss and before entering the next gate.
Storage: Skill Cores, Nebula Charging Stones, and Furniture Time Reduction Tickets can now be used directly from Storage.
Controls: UI windows now close when pressing the ESC key instead of on key release.
Controller: Character cards can now be viewed from the Relationships menu.
Intel XeSS: Upgraded Intel XeSS to version 2.0.
Reduced the visual size of dropped equipment on the ground.